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WiSe 15/16: Re-building the Mind

Alice Oswald

Comments

This course will focus on the Odyssey as a post-war poem, using it as the basis for a contemporary understanding of survival. Each session will examine a particular Homeric theme: the role of women in re-building the mind; the status of Time; the importance of objects; the weather and the natural world etc. In comparing ancient and modern treatments of these subjects, we shall try to understand the radically different scope of the oral mind. What can we learn from it? How can we re-create it? Students will not need to have studied Ancient Greek to attend this course but they will be encouraged, through contact with the originals, to change their ideas of what poems are or could be. close

8 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Wed, 12:00 - 16:00 8 Class schedule

Wed, 2015-10-21 12:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Alice Oswald